Almost everywhere I turn this week, the rhetoric on the political right conjures violence

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Mar 22, 2013 at 12:21 PMMar 22, 2013 at 10:12 PM

It’s been quite a week.

I had to ban a certain commenter from this blog the other day after he approvingly referred to “American citizens who [would] have no problem shooting at the government if they try to take their guns away…” and who said he was “willing to die” in defense of his absolutist reading of the Second Amendment and who said in another forum that he wishes the president of the United States did not have Secret Service protection.

And then yesterday, I ran across these comments from the right-wing Web site Free Republic in reaction to the ...

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Pat Cunningham

It’s been quite a week.

I had to ban a certain commenter from this blog the other day after he approvingly referred to “American citizens who [would] have no problem shooting at the government if they try to take their guns away…” and who said he was “willing to die” in defense of his absolutist reading of the Second Amendment and who said in another forum that he wishes the president of the United States did not have Secret Service protection.

And then yesterday, I ran across these comments from the right-wing Web site Free Republic in reaction to the ...